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Do you like browsing for information via Pinterest? A group (which individuals may request to join) is managing a Resource Description & Access (RDA) social media board on Pinterest. There don’t seem to be many people contributing to the board yet, so most of the content originates from one or two websites/blogs.

I wonder whether the visual-bias of Pinterest is well-suited for revealing discussions about RDA, in which content is typically delivered textually. Discussion of RDA–and our knowledge of information organization in general–may be enriched by visualizations that help contextualize the use of this content standard within the broader metadata landscape.

Visual created with easel.ly, a free tool that is pretty fun to use and doesn’t demand a lot of info when creating a user account (just a username and password).

This is the first in a two-part series on how libraries might start thinking ahead for BIBFRAME, a standard that is being developed to replace MARC. The BIBFRAME.org website has a FAQ and a good ‘getting started’ selection on its homepage, if you’d like to learn more about the Library of Congress/Zepheira BIBFRAME initiative.

At this meeting, we will info-share how RDA is being implemented in a MARC environment and reflect upon how those implementation decisions affect the ease of an eventual data migration to BIBFRAME. Specific RDA/MARC coding examples will be shared in advance of the meeting via the listserv and blog.

BIBFRAME comparison service allows you to enter a LC bibliographic ID (i.e., a MARC 001) and compare the MARC/XML to the BIBFRAME/RDF. NOTE: most DLC records I’ve tried, do not work; I successfully used 15131323, a record that was used in the BIBFRAME demo…

Though the April 2 Metadata Discussion Group meeting will not discuss RDA cataloging specifically, your blog hosts will be posting pertinent resources for those interested in learning more about cataloging with RDA. These posts are meant to be a brief introduction and are not intended to be exhaustive treatments of the topic. If you have other resources you’d like to share, please leave a comment!

Though the April 2 Metadata Discussion Group meeting will not discuss RDA cataloging specifically, your blog hosts will be posting pertinent resources for those interested in learning more about cataloging with RDA. These posts are meant to be a brief introduction and are not intended to be exhaustive treatments of the topic. If you have other resources you’d like to share, please leave a comment!